1982: A Year in Review

Whitey (0:00): Hey there, watchers. It's Warty, the captain of Born to Watch. And tonight we are back on the solo train. Now this episode was supposed to be me and Dan, but of course, Dan found something better to do, left me in the lurch. So apologies.

Whitey (0:17): You've got me, the solo man. The disappointing thing is, is that I had a great episode planned and I'm still going to go ahead with it because you know what? Fuck morgues. 1982, a year in review. Now there's been so many years that we've talked about being the best year of cinema and by no means is 1982 that, but in 1982, Steven Spielberg made a film so good.

Whitey (0:54): It held the box office record for ten years. Ridley Scott made a film so ahead of its time. Nobody bought a ticket. John Carpenter made what some people call the greatest horror film ever made, and no one saw it. Stallone starting two franchises in a single year.

Whitey (1:18): And Australian cinema punched above its weight on the world stage. I'm gonna go through and tell you just how good 1982 was as a cinema year. We'll start with the top 10 and we'll work through that. And then we'll have some of my favorites in a few different categories. We are of course born to watch.

Whitey (2:01): Well, I am tonight. And we don't take the movies or ourselves too seriously, unless it is the snobs report, which won't be happening tonight because our good man, sir, Demi Cockburn is not in studio. Now here's five reasons why 1982 matters. It's the summer that rewired Hollywood. In eight weeks across June and July, eight sci fi and fantasy films landed in cinemas simultaneously.

Whitey (2:36): ET, Blade Runner, Poltergeist, Star Trek two, Tron, Mad Max two, Conan the Barbarian, and the Thing all came out. What a time to be alive. After this, studios who were very skeptical of genre films were all in, and thank God for that. The CGI revolution begins. Tron was the first feature film to use extended computer generated imagery.

Whitey (3:14): Funnily enough, the computer had two meg of RAM. Two meg of RAM. I'm looking at my desktop here. I've got three terabytes of portable memory sitting on my desktop. They created Tron with two gigs of RAM.

Whitey (3:33): No one understood what they're watching. I remember being in the cinemas and going, what the fuck is going on? But without it, we don't have any of the movies today. Toy Story, Avatar, none of the modern blockbusters, nothing. It all starts with Tron.

Whitey (3:50): There were some of the greatest films made that no one saw. Two in particular, Blade Runner and The Thing. Both now universally regarded as masterpieces and cult hits. Both of them flopped on release, but a since become two of my favorite movies of all time. And I'm not the only one that thinks that way.

Whitey (4:15): The thing is an absolute masterpiece. And one of the reasons I decided to do nineteen eighty two is because we've done an episode of the thing. It was like our third or fourth episode. If you haven't listened to it, go back goes for forty four minutes. And I've been wanting to redo that episode since we did it.

Whitey (4:38): So tonight I'll get to talk a little bit about the thing, which I'm pretty pumped about. Our man sliced alone stars in two franchises. He launches one with first blood and he changes another with Rocky three. Mister t, eye of the tiger, and first blood. Unbelievable releases in the same year.

Whitey (5:07): An Australian cinema punching above its weight, the man from snowy river and mad max two, or the road warrior for you American listeners, both arrived on international screens in '82. Australia was known in the seventies and early eighties as a bit of a tax haven for making movies, but these two, the man from Snow River and Mad Max two, are as good as any movie released this year. They hold up. They're incredible. And Mad Max two became the template for all post apocalyptic movies to come.

Whitey (5:47): Okay. So here we go. The top 10 in the box office for 1982. This is not the 10 best movies. We're going to quickly go through the top 10 movies for the year.

Whitey (6:00): And at number one, an unstoppable force. We have reviewed this. Megan, my wife, set in on it. She did good, the bad, the ugly, because it's her favorite movie of all time. ET the extraterrestrial.

Whitey (6:14): Directed by Steven Spielberg, the greatest almost ever do it, dollars $793,000,000 worldwide. It held the box office top position of all time for ten years. Stars Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Drew Barrymore. A lonely boy named Elliot discovers a stranded alien in his backyard and must help him find his way home before government agents close in. To date, it was Spielberg's most personal film that would then be surpassed by Schindler's List in 1994, which holy shit.

Whitey (6:55): What a movie. But ET, I had my reservations about it. I spoke about it on the pod. I was annoyed at it because it displaced star wars as the highest box office owner. I was petty as a young kid, but watching it now, it's one of the greatest movies ever made.

Whitey (7:17): And that's it's not a kid's movie. Do you remember the days when kids movies were for adults? That doesn't seem to happen much anymore. I know there was toy story and Shrek, but you know, back in the days like Goonies, ET, they were for adults as well. We could get a lot out of them watching ET now I bold my eyes out.

Whitey (7:42): It's 176% on the crime meter. It has not aged one bit. It is still one of the greatest movies ever made. Now, two, Tootsie directed by Sydney Pollack, made 177,000,000, Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lang, Terry Gar, Bill Murray, struggling actor disguises himself as a woman to land a role on a daytime soap opera. Now my history with Tootsie is I was supposed to go to the movies to see this and I got grounded.

Whitey (8:15): So I never got to see it at the movies. I tell you what, I haven't really seen the whole thing ever. I'm going to keep it that way. Not really big on Dustin Hoffman in drag. He's not that attractive a woman.

Whitey (8:31): So let's move on. Now, number three. Now this was mentioned in our eighties action movie draft and felt seriously out of place. Morgz picked it the wild card, an officer and a gentleman. I put it in the list to see if anyone would try to take it.

Whitey (8:49): I had an inkling that Dan would because he's a tool, but directed by Taylor Hackford made a 130,000,000. Richard Gere, Deborah Winger, Louis Gossett junior, who won an Academy Award for his role. Cocky working class candidate battles through US Navy officer school pushed to breaking point by a hard as nails drill sergeant while falling for a local girl. Now this movie, I wish I shouldn't like this movie. It's a romance.

Whitey (9:21): It's not an action film. It's just sits around the Marines and the air force. That's about as actiony as it gets, But this is a great movie. It's one of those ones where I think growing up, I was a bit loathe to watch it because it was a romance, but this is more than that. This could be Richard Gere at his best.

Whitey (9:43): But if you've not seen an officer and a gentleman, I don't know what rock you've been living under, but go and watch it. It's great. It's really good. Now the role of sergeant Foley, who was Louis Gossett junior, was originally written as a white character. Gossett Jr.

Whitey (10:01): Was cast without the script being changed, and he brought an entirely different dimension to the role. And he became the first black man to win the Academy Award for best supporting actor. Incredible, incredible performance by him. A really great performance by Richard Gey and Deborah Winger. Yeah.

Whitey (10:22): She's great too. It's really worth a watch. Here we go. The first of the blockbusters, Rocky three directed, written by sliced alone, 124,000,000 starring slime self, Mr. T, Carl Withers, Talia Shire.

Whitey (10:42): Yeah. Rocky's grown softest champion when the ferocious club of Lang destroys him in the ring. He turns to old rival Apollo to rebuild. Are the tigers in the soundtrack? It's iconic.

Whitey (11:00): It's one of the best Rockies. It's probably it's for me, it's in the top three or four. It's amazing when he goes back to LA with a polo and trains in the gym. It is so good. Obviously, sly is mad on the gear from between Rocky two and Rocky three because he is unrecognizable.

Whitey (11:22): He's also extremely intelligent in Rocky three. So he did a lot of changing, but great soundtrack, great story, great villain. Mr. T was discovered by Sly after he saw him on TV as a bodyguard on a TV show called American's toughest Bounces. Stallone flew him out.

Whitey (11:47): They sparred. He was legitimately frightened of Mr. T. He had never acted before. And this is where the difference is where we've just done Creed with pretty Ricky Conlon.

Whitey (12:02): Mr. T's got charisma. He had no acting experience, and you can't tell he's an amazing bad guy. Incredible get up. Love Rocky three.

Whitey (12:16): Now number five is one of Gao's favorites, Porkies. We haven't reviewed it yet, but we will. We will. Directed by Bob Clark, did a 105,000,000 stars a whole host of no ones. Kim controls in it.

Whitey (12:31): Florida high school boys in the fifties plot revenge on a sleazy roadhouse owner after him after a humiliating night. I guess it really birthed the teen sex comedy. Probably most boys first sight of snob on film Couldn't be made today. It's seriously creepy. And at the time was rejected by every major Hollywood studio.

Whitey (13:02): Every Hollywood studio was eventually made for $4,000,000 by a Canadian production company and grossed a 105,000,000. Yeah. That makes it one of the most profitable movies ever made. But hats off birth, the whole genre that the eighties nineties and February really took to the next level. So thank you, Porky's.

Whitey (13:30): We owe you that. Star Trek two, the Wrath of Khan comes in at number six, directed by Nicholas Meyer, made $97,000,000 starring Bill Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelly, and Ricardo Montalban as Khan. Admiral Kirk faces his most personal and dangerous nemesis as genetically engineered villain Khan escapes exile and pursues a devastating new weapon. Now this is almost universally known as the best star wars movie. Yeah.

Whitey (14:09): The first one was a borefest, but this one's actually pretty good. Pretty, pretty good. You know? And Spock's death was originally supposed to happen in the first five minutes of the film. As Leonard Nimoy had decided he was done with star Trek and he wanted out, but he was convinced to move to death, But he was convinced to move to death to the end of the film and make it the proper sacrifice that it becomes.

Whitey (14:38): But he never left. When he comes back, Spock never dies. It's a good trick, from a man who was a Star Wars guy. This is a pretty watchable Star Trek movie. It's worth a watch.

Whitey (14:51): Number seven, forty eight hours, Eddie Murphy at his best. Directed by Walter Hill, made 79,000,000. Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, James Reimer, O'Toole, a gruff detective reluctantly takes a convicted criminal out of prison for forty eight hours to track down a killer. Eddie Murphy's first film killed it, went on to become Eddie Murphy. He was only 21 when the film was released.

Whitey (15:28): It only had one screen credit prior. Walter Hill cast him despite the resistance of the studio and gave him all the creative freedom he wanted, and Murphy fucking cooked. We're yet to review this on born to watch, but it's coming soon. It will be done in 2026. Number eight, poltergeist.

Whitey (15:57): Toby Hooper apparently directed it. Did 122,000,000 at the box office Craig t Nelson Joe Beth Williams Heather O'Rourke we've just recently done this and this was a lot of fun to revisit I'd forgotten just how good it was But, you know, suburban young families terrorized by supernatural forces that abduct their youngest daughter into another dimension. Now, obviously, we talked a lot about the debate about who directed the movie. I don't particularly care because it is so good. It holds up.

Whitey (16:34): Yes. Are some of the effects a bit naff? Yes. Of course. It's a forty four year old movie, but the story is great.

Whitey (16:43): The performances are great, and this movie is well worth a watch in 2026. We did a great review with Damo and Bones, bones was anti poltergeist. It was never a big poltergeist guy, and even he enjoyed it. Number nine, the best little whorehouse in Texas directed by Colin Higgins, 70,000,000 at the box office, Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, a beloved Texas brothel is threatened by a moralistic TV reporter on a crusade for decency. It's a musical.

Whitey (17:24): Yeah. I've seen it. I saw it a long time ago. It was a huge hit. The critics hated it.

Whitey (17:32): Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds didn't like each other, but it still did quite well. I remember this used to be one of those movies because it said whorehouse on the cover. When I'd see it in the video shop, I'd be like, oh, I wanna rent that. Yeah. Didn't really pay out and what I thought it would.

Whitey (17:50): But, but, anyway, the next one, two musicals in a row. The sun will come out tomorrow. Number 10, Annie. Now this was directed by John Houston, the John Houston. 57,000,000, Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Tim Curry, Bernadette Peters.

Whitey (18:10): The classic Broadway musical adaptation, daddy Warbucks, Sandy the dog, tomorrow, Tim Curry is rooster, John Houston directing a kid's musical wouldn't happen today. Now John Houston directed the Maltese Falcon, The African Queen, and Chinatown, and decided at the age of 75 to direct Annie because he wanted to make a film that his grandchildren could watch. He was given $35,000,000 which was massive in 1982, considering that Porkies was made for four. The film made 57,000,000 and was considered a disappointment. But God, this is a movie I saw at the movies and I've seen so many times.

Whitey (19:05): One of the most recognizable soundtracks someone at some time has sung the sun will come out tomorrow, or it's a hard knock life. Tim Curry is amazing as rooster in this movie. And Albert Finney is so against type as daddy Warbucks. It's great. It's worth a watch.

Whitey (19:29): I watched it with my kids. I introduced them to my kids. There's been a couple of terrible adaptations done full black cast with Jamie Foxx, which is awful. But anyway, that's it. That was the top 10.

Whitey (19:44): Now you would not see a top 10 like that today. It is so eclectic. It is every movie is different. You know, you've got a, you've a blockbuster, you've got a franchise, you've got like a low budget action. Are you've, you've got a scary movie.

Whitey (20:01): You've got, you've got a couple of musicals. You just not see that today. So that was the top 10 and not a bad one. Now we're getting into a section that I'm excited about. We're gonna call this fan faves, and we have to start with first blood.

Whitey (20:25): Morgz thinks it's two thirds of a good movie. We don't. We think it is a great piece of cinema directed by Ted Kotchev, which surprisingly directed one of Morks' favorite movies, Wake in Fright. Now it made 47,000,000. It was thirteenth overall, starring Sylvester Stallone, Brian Dennehy, Richard Krenner.

Whitey (20:48): And we all know the story. Vietnam vet, John Rambo drifts into a small Pacific Northwestern town, and he's run out by the local sheriff. That decision triggers a one man war. Now for a movie that is viewed as being violent, one person dies. That is it.

Whitey (21:10): And it was not Rambo's fault. The guy was shooting at him. He threw a rock at the helicopter, and he fell out. And he fell to his death. And he was a dick, so he probably deserved to die.

Whitey (21:28): But what a movie so completely different to what came after. This is a serious character study. It's about PTSD, but all wrapped up in one of the great action films of the eighties. This was my introduction to Sylvester Stallone. I'm fairly certain that I saw this movie before I saw a Rocky movie, And it's still today, one of my favorites.

Whitey (21:58): I watched half of it last week. I caught the back half of it. It's unreal. Kranner is incredible. Troutman is so good.

Whitey (22:08): Steals the show. You all know how we feel here on Born to Watch about Rambo. And if you've not watched First Blood for a little while, go back and revisit it. It's amazing. You'll love it.

Whitey (22:22): Now next off the block, Clint Eastwood, Firefox. $46,000,000. It did. Clint directed it himself. It's pretty much the Clint show.

Whitey (22:36): A burnout Vietnam War pilot is reactivated for a mission that seems impossible, infiltrate the Soviet Union and steal Firefox, the most advanced jet fighter ever built. Now this was in the height of the Cold War, and it's a great action spy thriller. So much fun. Clint's unreal. He hasn't made many bad movies.

Whitey (23:00): And, again, this is this is one of his lesser known ones, but one that I like a lot. When he's flying the plane, it's actually pretty cool. They've done a great job. So, yeah, again, if you've not watched Firefox in a while, go and revisit it. You won't be disappointed.

Whitey (23:23): Okay. Here we go. Number three in fan faves, Conan, the bar Berrien. Now we have reviewed this and it was a heap of fun. This is Arnie at his beginning, but also you can see the charm.

Whitey (23:46): You can see he's going to be a star. It's directed by John Milius, did about 80,000,000 word worldwide, starring Arnie, James L. Jones, Max von Seedel, Sandal Bergman, Jerry Lopez, Young barbarian boy witnesses the slaughter of his tribe by the snake cult leader, False Doom. He's enslaved, forged into a warrior, and sets out for bloody revenge. The Basil Polodorus score is incredible.

Whitey (24:21): Now we know we take the piss about Basil Polodorus doing the score for Starship Troopers and one of the worst songs ever put to cinema. I have not been to paradise. Haven't sung that for a while. Fuck a duck. But the score for this is next level good.

Whitey (24:44): And you can see it when you're driving your car and from start to finish, you are immersed in that Sumerian time. It is so good. Conan, I bow to you and the limitations of their women. Last one in the fan faves. And this was one for Morgz, but he's not here.

Whitey (25:10): Fast times at Ridgemont high Directed by Amy Heckling, did about 50,000,000 worldwide, Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Lee, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, a group of Southern California high school students navigate sex, work, drugs, and general chaos of adolescence over the course of a school year. Cameron Crowe wrote it. Sean Penn as Percoli is one of the great performances of his career. And this is one of Dan's favorite movies of all time. And we know why, and we know why.

Whitey (25:48): It's the Phoebe Cates scene. And the same with Deimo. I'm sure the only reason he watched and still watches Fast Times is for the perfect triangular snobs of Phoebe Cates. But again, it's a movie that is of its time, but it's still pretty fricking funny. Fast Times at Ridgemont High highly recommend.

Whitey (26:12): Now we move into the section that I'm most excited to talk about because it's the cult hits, and I've got three movies here. The first one is Blade Runner. Now directed by Ridley Scott. And just remember that three years earlier, he had directed alien. It's incredible.

Whitey (26:44): This movie did $30,000,000 on release and was considered a flop. Stars Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Daryl Hannah, Edward James almost In a rain soaked Los Angeles of 2019, a detective is tasked with hunting down rogue replicants, bioengineered beings more human than human. Ridley Scott's vision of a dying beautiful future is one of the most influential science fiction movies ever made, and it bombed. It's now regarded as an absolute masterpiece adapted from the Philip K Dick short story. This is just incredible to think that a movie this good was so derided when it was released.

Whitey (27:47): Since 1982, there have been so many different versions of this movie. Now I've got a box set just in the other room. That's got five versions of the movie. Now, when it was released, it had the narration. Then the director's cut was done.

Whitey (28:02): That wasn't the director's cut. Then another version was done. Then the red X was done. Then the final cut was done, which then was apparently the director's cut. I actually didn't mind the narration when I was younger, because it helped me understand what was going on as I have become older and more mature and actually understand, probably since I was probably 15 or 14, you don't need the narration.

Whitey (28:32): The narration is average, and you can tell that Harrison Ford is dialing the narration in something shocking. But the world they created, that Los Angeles is incredible. And you can see it still today in so many different movies. Ridley Scott delivered a movie so far ahead of its time The people actually didn't get it, and he should be champion for that. So Blade Runner.

Whitey (29:07): Some people think it's boring. It's not. It's deep. The score it's vengeous. It is so fucking good.

Whitey (29:18): This is practical effects at its best. Well, at its second best, because the movie I'm going to talk about now is I still think today the best practical effects ever. And that is John Carpenter's The Thing. This did $19,000,000 at the box office. Stars Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, TK Carter, who just recently passed the RIP.

Whitey (29:54): A research team in Antarctica discovers an alien life form that can perfectly imitate any living creature. This is John Carpenter's masterpiece of paranoia and body horror. Absolutely destroyed by critics for its gore, it is now considered almost by everyone as one of the greatest horror films ever made. And the practical effects from Rob Botin have never been topped. Let's take away Jurassic Park and all this other bullshit like that.

Whitey (30:33): In terms of practical effects, nothing comes close to this movie. The Thing is a movie that I could watch every month for the rest of my life. It never gets old. I find something new in it every time I watch it. I've just gotten the new massive documentary, five hour documentary, the thing expanded, which is amazing.

Whitey (31:00): The behind the scenes on our YouTube channel and the born to watch YouTube channel, There's the making of the thing video we have up there, which is the official making of, and it is a great doc. Oh, goes for ninety minutes and it goes right behind the scenes interviews. Most of the cast interviews, John Carpenter, Robbo team, all the Hugh, all the players. And what John Carpenter did to the cast to ensure it got that feeling of paranoia and also that feeling of camaraderie is incredible. And what they went through, the temperatures were horrendous.

Whitey (31:39): It's just one of the great movies. If you've not watched it in a while, or if you'd watched it and thought it wasn't great or you didn't enjoy it, go back go back and just watch it and think, fuck. Movies today do not look as good as what the thing did made on fuck all money with practical effects in 1982. We will be re reviewing this movie soon. This is one of my favorite movies of all time.

Whitey (32:12): This is in my top 10 and it will never leave it. Kurt Russell as McCready is a boss. It is so good. Now the third movie in the cult hits is another, another favorite of mine. And it's directed by George a Romero and it's creep show.

Whitey (32:36): And that's George a Romero of dawn of the dead, day of the dead, not a living dead. It did 21,000,000 domestic, Hal Hallbrook stars, Adrian Barbeau, Leslie Nielsen, Ted Danson, Ed Harris, Stephen King. It's a Stephen King, adaptation. He helped to write it. It's a five story anthology, you know, paying homage to the EC comics of the 1950s.

Whitey (33:05): Leslie Nielsen plays it straight as a villain. Stephen King tries to act. Ted Danson gets buried in sand. And this was probably the first horror movie, probably the first real horror movie that I saw. Again, it was that, that cover, that VHS cover in the store just with the with the skeleton selling tickets.

Whitey (33:31): It's just so good. Fuck. Like, posters in the eighties were so good. Those hand drawn posters that we used to get. I think we forget just how good they used to be.

Whitey (33:46): I've got a, I've got a poster. I've got the big trouble, little China poster, and it hangs up in my room. It's not in the studio at the moment, but it's hand drawn. It is so good. But the creep show poster is amazing.

Whitey (34:01): And the and the box art for the VHS was so eye catching that it was one of those, what I just had to rent. And as I said, one of the first horror movies I ever saw, and I used to watch it all the time. I remember I taped it off the TV and it was probably in a rotation with star wars and jaws for a while there never quite hit the market. Those two, but it was still a childhood favorite of mine. Okay.

Whitey (34:33): Couple personal picks for me. Now these are a couple movies that sort of mean that meant something to me in the eighties. And the first one is the pirate movie. Now this is not a good movie. This is not a good movie at all.

Whitey (34:54): Starring Christy McNichol, Christopher Atkins, Bill Kerr, Gary McDonald, Ted Hamilton, like it made 9,000,000 worldwide. A bookish American girl attending a pirate festival is knocked unconscious and dreams herself into an adventure loosely based on the pirates of Penzance. It was an incredible soundtrack. I just remember as a young kid, there was the guy that lived down the street. His name was Johnny and he had a sister, an older sister, and she was quite a bit older.

Whitey (35:27): He was older than me. So if I was say, how old boy in '82, seven, let's say I was nine, he would have been 12 and she was 15. So she was quite a bit older and she actually introduced me to the soundtrack to Jesus Christ superstar, But she had all these records, and she used to watch all these movies. And I remember watching the pirate movie at their house and being introduced to the soundtrack. She had the soundtrack, and she played these songs over and over and over.

Whitey (35:58): And it's a terrible, terrible movie, but it's a lot of fun. It actually brings back a lot of fond memories of being like a 10 year old. And I can't find it to, I've tried to find it to download it. I've tried to find it to own it. I can't find it anywhere.

Whitey (36:21): I I've tried to watch it on YouTube. There's only bits and pieces of it, but I know it's I know it's tragic. But the funny thing is it was filmed in Australia, in Victoria, on the Great Ocean Road. And Australian production and Fox decided to distribute it, And it actually beat the parts of Penn's ants to the cinemas by six months. Fox rushed it into production to Gazump Universal so that it got its version out first.

Whitey (36:52): It doesn't really compare and it's funny and it's ridiculous. But look, you know, the pirate movie, it's probably one of those guilty pleasures that I know is shit. It's a bit like hawk, the slayer, but I'm gonna watch it if I get a chance to. Now the next one is a bit more serious movie. The world according to Garp directed by George Roy Hill, 30,000,000 at the box office starring Robin Williams, Glenn Close, John Lithgow, Hume Cronin, Jessica Tandy.

Whitey (37:28): TS Garp is the illegitimate son of a radical feminist icon, raised in a world of eccentric characters, wrestling, writing, and tragedy. Robin Williams in an early dramatic role before he went full comedy. Glenn Close's film debut, she received an Oscar nomination. She's great. John Lithgow plays a transgender nurse and he's great.

Whitey (37:57): But the reason for this is there's a, there's a bit of a scene in this movie that, I remember I was in year four. So I guess I'm 11, 10, definitely not a movie that I should be watching, but it had some themes. It had some stuff that, that no year four person should be subjected to, but my parents a little bit liberal and I sorta, cause I looked a bit older. I probably got treated a little bit differently, but there is a scene where Robin Williams wife is having an affair. She's a teacher at a college and she's having an affair with one of her students and they're driving home and she's, servicing him as he drives the car and they have a crash and she effectively bites his dick off and she's got some mouth neck brace thing on.

Whitey (38:52): And I remember that I was telling my now wife then, 10 year old friend in year four about this scene. And she went home and told her mom. So forever. Was the guy that told their daughter about the dick sucking scene in year four. And I took a bit of getting over that when I first was reintroduced to Mr.

Whitey (39:18): And Mrs. Simons, that's for sure. But, we got there in the end. I'm now a loving son-in-law and loved son-in-law, but, look, Garp is a great movie. It's, it's serious.

Whitey (39:31): It's heartwarming. It's sad. It's really worth a watch. It's Robin Williams, one of his best roles. So there you go.

Whitey (39:39): There's two movies that probably a little left of center from what you'd be normal. What, what you would normally hear me talk about here on the podcast. But do yourself a favor. Give the pirate movie a wide berth, but if you've not seen the world, according to gap, give it a crack. It's pretty cool.

Whitey (40:01): Now I mentioned earlier on about Aussie movies punching above their weight, and I mentioned the man from snowy river and Bad Max two. But these are two of the great Australian films of all time. The man from snow river was directed by George T Miller, not George Miller did 17,000,000 at the box office, but it probably did more than that at the Like, it probably was much more popular in the Australian box office. Stars Tom Burlington, Segret Thornton, Kirk Douglas plays two roles, and Jack Thompson. After his father's death, young Jim Craig takes work at a wealthy cattle station in the Victorian high country, proving himself among hardened mountain men, falling for the boss's daughter and riding into legend in one of the most breathtaking sequences ever shot on horseback.

Whitey (41:05): Now this is based on the banjo Patterson, poem. Kirk Douglas plays Mr. Harrison, the owner of the station that Jim Craig works at. And he plays his brother spur, who is one legged and lives in the lives in the wild. And he's friends with Jim.

Whitey (41:24): This movie is fucking amazing. This is Australian cinema at its best. The cinematography, the sound, the sound design, the sound of the horses hooves is just, it's it's unbelievably good. Tom Burlinson is a superstar in this movie. And finally, I've probably told the story on the podcast before, but he used to come in to the video shop as a customer.

Whitey (41:54): And we used to have the staff choices. And I had the man from snowy river was one of my staff choices. And I wrote a great soundtrack, incredible cinematography was my note on the card. And he came up to the counter and he said, Matt, the man from snow river. And I said, yeah.

Whitey (42:16): And he goes, is are the best the only good things about the cinematography and the soundtrack. And I said, well, yeah, not everything. That's great. I said, some of the acting's amazing. It's just a pity that the lead guy wasn't that good.

Whitey (42:37): And he just looked at me and he said, you're a dick. But, it's, it's an incredible movie. It's one of, one of the, one of two movies that I can distinctly recall saying at the cinema with my dad. And I remember walking up the steps at Hoits Twin and seeing the man from a snowy river. And I watched it about a year ago, and I'm probably due to watch it again.

Whitey (43:08): It is just a great movie. It is just a great Aussie movie worth a watch people. The next one of course is mad max two or the road warrior as it's known in the Northern Hemisphere, like twenty, twenty three million us. But I think that's short, obviously stars Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Vernon Wells, secure in the corner, John in a post apocalyptic wasteland lone warrior max reluctantly defends a remote oil refinery community against a savage gang of marauders. Now this is the sequel to the original mad max, which is one of the great Aussie films, one of my favorite films.

Whitey (44:00): And this movie has been copied and homaged forever in the day. The cars, the costumes, the choreography, the mythology, this is one of the great action movies ever made. And, again, in fact, they remade it essentially for Fury Road. They effectively remade mad max two in fury road, but there are so many movies. There are so many TV shows that owe mad max, the road warrior, a debt of gratitude.

Whitey (44:39): I've seen it many, many, many times. It is a very easy watch. If you've not watched it in a while, watch it. It's amazing filmed in regional New South Wales. Mel Gibson is great.

Whitey (44:56): Emil Minty who plays the feral kid, who I think we mentioned it the other week that the new, the max in fury road is actually the feral kid. So that's the string there between those two films, But there we go. There's a few movies from 1982, which shows that whilst it may not be the greatest year in cinema history, it's a pretty bloody good one. It's a pretty deep year, so there's many more movies that you can watch from '82 and not be disappointed. The good, the bad, and the ugly brought to you by our mates at Gage Rhodes Brew Company.

Whitey (45:47): It's getting to be a little bit cooler and that hazy as seems to be the drop the boys are all having. I don't mind the chili lime ginger beer from matzo's, but if you want some good Aussie piss, look no further than gauge roads. Now this is a solo good, the bad, the ugly. And we just like the and we'll start with the good, just the, the sheer volume of great movies released in this year. There are heaps, Like, the sci fi and the genre films in the year, it was like back in the back in '82, a director could really, like, have a pun, really have a crack.

Whitey (46:34): You don't get to do that anymore. It is so square peg, square hole for movies nowadays. Incredible practical effects. You got the thing, you got ET, you got Conan, you got Blade Runner, just amazing practical effects. You got two incredible Australian movies.

Whitey (46:56): They're competing at the highest level internationally. And you got Stallone starring in Rocky three in first blood in the same year. Unbelievably good. Now the bad is obviously how blade runner and the thing were received. People got it wrong in '82.

Whitey (47:18): Yeah. Revisionist history will say that they are two of the best movies ever made. A Tootsie coming in at number two. Really? Like, did more people go and see Tootsie than star trek two forty eight hours first blood?

Whitey (47:37): Like Tootsie was successful, but blade runner and the thing weren't. Give me a fucking break. Porky's at number five. Oh, DME porky's at number five. Is it bad or is it good?

Whitey (48:02): Let's leave it in bad because it's really just perverts looking through a little people. And it's one of Gao's favorite movies. Now the ugly, and we haven't touched on it at all yet, but we have recently with poltergeist was the twilight zone. Vic Morrow and two child actors were killed during the filming led to massive, massive safety reforms in Hollywood and a court case that lasted a long time. Very, very sad.

Whitey (48:35): John Belushi died in '82 one of the great talents and very sad that we didn't get to see him really fulfill his potential only 33 years of age. And of course for you, the perps, the last ugly grease two after the hit. That was the original. We get grease two fuck me dead. Well, that is it.

Whitey (49:09): That is 1982 in review solo style. I hope you enjoyed it. I know it's rough just listening to the captain speak for about an hour with no one else to sort of chime in. These solo episodes aren't easy, but I think this one might be a little bit better than the last. And let's hope the next one's a little bit better than this one.

Whitey (49:34): That's all we can ask for. But there's a lot of movies there, guys, for you guys to have a watch. Be great to hear what you think. So shout out on the socials. We're getting some great feedback on, you can leave comments on Spotify.

Whitey (49:48): Choppers does it regularly. We would love to hear from more of you on Spotify. Now, Choppers, I apologize because he's left a voicemail and I'm saving that for next week for our fourth birthday. That's how good it is. We will do only fans next week for our fourth birthday.

Whitey (50:09): And now you are probably sitting there thinking what the fuck are they gonna do for their fourth birthday? Well, we're going epic. We're going to Quentin Tarantino and we're going to something of a modern fairytale. Once upon a time in Hollywood, I'm pretty sure it will be me, gal and morgues, but who fucking knows at the moment? Everyone is so busy.

Whitey (50:39): Let's hope we get three good ones on. We know I'll be there. So, well, let's get two good ones and me people. Thank you so much for tuning in. Thank you for listening.

Whitey (50:51): Thank you for the support. If you want to share this episode to a friend, if you want to give us a review, please do. We love having you guys along for the ride as a special celebration of this episode myself and the Hirschfelda house band have put a little something together for 1982 in a kick ass form until next week do your homework once upon a time in Hollywood bye for now.

Unknown Speaker (54:11): And hear the lamentations of the women, where all those moments would be lost in time, like tears in rain. There was one year, one summer, one spickly, and his name was nineteen eighty two. And a small alien who just wanted to go home. Glorious thing. I want my cake.

Unknown Speaker (55:59): Happy ending. They're here.